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...committed to welfare reform because what we are doing to the poor in America is destructive and immoral." --Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, as quoted in the New York Times on December 3, 1995. He might want to evaluate similarly what he plans on doing to the poor in America...
Forbes' vision of America is a more radical one than his charmingly goofy smile might suggest. To Forbes, Newt Gingrich is not a revolutionary but an incrementalist, and the Republican budget is just Tax-and-Spend Lite. His flat tax is also an enormous tax cut that he concedes will raise $40 billion less in revenue than the tax system does now; the group Citizens for Tax Justice, a generally liberal think tank, estimates a 17% flat tax would produce a shortfall of $200 billion. And never mind turning matters back to the states: Forbes...
STOCKBROKER JERRY ESTRUTH, WHO IS making his first bid for Congress, is not running against his opponent. Instead, his TV ads feature a photo of a scowling Newt Gingrich above a warning about the House Speaker's proposed cuts in Medicare and education. "Jerry Estruth for Congress," an announcer says. "Newt Gingrich hasn't heard of him...But he will." The ad makes no mention of Estruth's real foe, state senator Tom Campbell...
...against Bill Clinton. This year the bogey man is the increasingly unpopular House Speaker. In the Nov. 7 Kentucky Governor's election, Democrat Paul Patton won largely by selling himself as a defender of the weak against Newt the serial program killer. Now in California's 15th congressional district Gingrich has become a target of opportunity for Democrats trying to win a special Dec. 12 election to replace resigned Democratic Representative Norman Mineta...
Though the district is traditionally Democratic, polls show Estruth, 52, trailing. One reason is that Campbell, 43, enjoys higher name recognition because of two terms as a Congressman in a nearby district. So Estruth is painting him as a Friend of Newt. Last week Estruth even offered Gingrich a round-trip plane ticket to California to campaign for Campbell. What Estruth doesn't say is that Campbell is a moderate whose positions on many issues are not much different from his own. "Fiscally I'm a pretty conservative guy," Estruth shrugs. "Socially I'm progressive.'' Likewise, Campbell is defiantly...